secco (sekko)

and a. [It., = F. sec, dry, II. a . In music , unaccompanied; plain. See recitative. secede (se-sed'), v. i.; pret. and pp. seceded, ppr. seceding. [L. secedere, pp. sece us, go away, withdraw, Scotland. See Sece ion Church, under secesreligious denominations in Scotland, offshoots, more or sion.-Original Seceders, United Original Seceders, le remote, from branches of the Sece ion Church. secern (sē-sėrn'), v . t . and i. [ secernere , pp. secret us , sunder, separate, se- , apart, + cernere, divide, separate: see concern , decern, discern , etc., and cf. secret , secrete .] 1. To separate. A vascular and tubular system, with a secerning or separating cellular arrangement, B. W. Richardson , Prevent. Med., p. 95. 2. To distinguish. Averroes secerns a sense of titillation and a sense of hunger and thirst. Sir W. Hamilton , Metaph., xxvii. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0472.png:[blocks in formation] secernent (sē-ser'nent), a. and n. [ II. n. 1. That which promotes secretion. Darwin .-2. In an at ., an organ whose function is to secrete or separate matters from the blood.